Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Warning! If you respond and contribute croutons to this salad related request you will be besieged with meal requests from every quarter with renewed vigor. 070
Reposted by Mike HarvisonMU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” — Nikola Tesla 🔥 How frequency vibrations can impact fire 🧪youtube.comMan shows how frequency vibrations can impact fire.. 👁️🤯YouTube video by Conciousmb 085
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026 Preprint here on NE England Iron Age matrilines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgAncient DNA reveals matrilineal organisation and recurrent unions between dominant matrilines in Iron Age BritainKinship practices underpin all traditional societies, forming the basis for socially sanctioned reproductive unions, residence patterns and the inheritance of rights and property[1][1],[2][2]. Althoug... 041
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Monumental without managerial.cambridge.orgKaillachuro: early monumental architecture of the Titicaca Basin, 5300–3000 BP | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreKaillachuro: early monumental architecture of the Titicaca Basin, 5300–3000 BP - Volume 99 Issue 405 000
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Watching the Obama Presidential Center opening celebration because we need something uniquely American to enjoy today. The celebration of this man feels more like a celebration of of America than anything surrounding Independence Day. 010
Reposted by Mike HarvisonScott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 6319169
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026Bound to be an interesting read, but several parts I would want to challenge vociferously (as usual, the Lewis-Williams bandwagon on 'trance' entoptics represented as taking psychotropics, but not in Bushman case; a complete failure to address gender and ritual etc; Graeber + Wengrow are […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 021
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026From Cara Ocobock: The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… 001
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026So-called patchwork families are also seen with hunter-gatherers like the Hadza and are probably pretty ancient. This is a recent genetic analysis of Neolithic social/genetic networks: 'ancient DNA from 203 individuals from six European sites who fell into two culture groups: the Western Funnel […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 124
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026RE: c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116587909665962… This film is so funny and smart. A total treat, enjoy! 011
Reposted by Mike HarvisonMU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A record that spans at least 78 K years Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya🏺🧪 Jennifer Miller, @nicoleboivin.bsky.social , @mdpetraglia.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 0146
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 24/05/2026DOCC has the risk of creating OAE. The feedstock for OAE is expensive. Is there an opportunity to couple DOCC outputs to OAE inputs? What sort of platform would we need to make it sustainable? 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/05/2026It’s good to be alerted that our paper is available as a preprint. Please read it and send me fan mail. www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comThree challenges to marine carbon dioxide removal - npj Ocean Sustainabilitynpj Ocean Sustainability - Three challenges to marine carbon dioxide removal 2297
Reposted by Mike HarvisonProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026🌊 Review: Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comTransitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation - Nature Reviews PhysicsThe multistable dynamics of the Atlantic Ocean circulation pose a central problem in climate physics, because instabilities of the flows can have large climate impacts. This Review uses a dynamical sy... 0115
Reposted by Mike HarvisonNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/05/2026The multistable dynamics of the Atlantic Ocean circulation pose a central problem in climate physics, because instabilities of the flows can have large climate impacts. A Review in Nature Reviews Physics unifies much of the model behaviour that has been found. go.nature.com/49HW9kQ ⚛️🌊🧪 03313
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I never understood the argument that humans could not live in rainforests. Why do we look mainly to Eastern Africa? It’s where the age appropriate rocks are. 001
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Mother was a programmer before the age of computers. 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/05/2026My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true. 12702192
Reposted by Mike HarvisonAnthropology.net @anthropology.net · 10/04/2026New DNA research overturns a key assumption: the “Polynesian motif,” a maternal lineage spanning nearly all of Remote Oceania, didn’t come from Taiwan — it arose on the north coast of New Guinea ~6,500 years ago. #Archaeogenetics #PacificPrehistory #Lapita www.anthropology.net/p/the-polyne...anthropology.netThe Polynesian Motif Was Already ThereA genetic signature found across the entire Remote Pacific traces back to New Guinea long before Austronesian seafarers arrived — and that changes the story of Pacific colonization 082
Reposted by Mike HarvisonManuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026🚨 Publication alert🚨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago at the site of Jojosi @natcomms.nature.com - specialized, long-term use of a source of a raw material source in Stone Age Africa: Read the paper #openaccess here www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSpecialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene - Nature CommunicationsThe authors here demonstrate that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousa... 34822
Reposted by Mike HarvisonAnthropology.net @anthropology.net · 07/04/2026220,000 years ago, early humans in South Africa were making dedicated quarrying trips — not just picking up stone on the way to something else. The Jojosi site rewrites the timeline of deliberate resource planning. #Paleoanthropology #MiddleStoneAge #HumanEvolutionanthropology.netThe Stone Seekers of JojosiA site in South Africa's grasslands reveals that Homo sapiens were making dedicated quarrying expeditions 220,000 years ago — far earlier than the field assumed possible 061
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026We took our 'We're on Sex Strike' banner on the massive March Together 144
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026It was massive. The Met is playing to the fascist gallery calling it 50,000. Yeah so friends had already reached Whitehall, while we were still waiting 2 hrs back at Park Lane, hadn't even started! More likely 500,000 alright […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 005
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Clovis People may have eaten the megafauna but who ate the Clovis People? 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026Data sources here ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megaf…ourworldindata.orgDid humans cause the Quaternary megafauna extinction?10,000 to 50,000 years ago, hundreds of the largest mammals went extinct. It's likely that humans were the key driver of this. 001
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Thoughtful piece: “Rather than focusing on a crisis of boys or girls, many specialists say the priority should be supporting young people overall, sometimes in a gender-neutral way” www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAre boys really in crisis? What the science says in the age of the manosphereSome data suggest that boys and young men are struggling with school, health and masculinity. But does talk of a male crisis further sideline women and girls? 0176
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026Well entering the 'lunar sphere of influence' was what made us human in the first place. 011
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 20/03/2026No reference for this claim. “Like modern humans, Neandertals were mostly hairless, with most of their bodies covered only by fine vellus hairs.” How do we know this? 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonPaul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Anthropogenic Global Warming & Storms🧵 theconversation.com/even-weak-tr...theconversation.comEven weak tropical cyclones have grown more intense worldwide – we tracked 30 years of them using currentsResearch shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive as the planet warms. 9317164
Reposted by Mike HarvisonMU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Vanishing lakes in Tibet may have triggered earthquakes by awakening faults in Earth’s crust. When they begin to dry up, that weight is lost and the crust slowly rises again. Lake Unloading Drives Fault Slip and Rift Asymmetry in Southern Tibet 🧪 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 01912
Reposted by Mike HarvisonBook slut 💙 @heatherbookslut.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The World Is Burning. It’s Time for Matriarchy. An Evidence-Based Case for a New Social Order "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker We are living through a moment of simultaneous, spectacular collapse. The systems that promised to…feministreclamation.comThe World Is Burning. It’s Time for Matriarchy.An Evidence-Based Case for a New Social Order "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker We are living through a moment of simultaneous, spectacular collapse. The systems that promised to protect women and children have not merely failed, they have been exposed as mechanisms of exploitation dressed in the language of protection. 032
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This post sparked a question. Is it Language or vocabulary that shapes thought? Cultural isolates within a language group can use different words for similar concepts. Many of these isolates or age groups are defined by the use of certain words. What do you think? 500
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Tuesday's session with Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis on their forthcoming book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP 2026) 112
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/03/2026the-crossroads-inn.com/@cassana/116...the-crossroads-inn.comCassana 🍻 (@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com)I want to tackle this somewhat, because it annoys the hell out of me. So I've been hearing white supremacists have started being smug about Aurignacian peoples in now southern Germany developing proto... 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Next Tuesday's session with Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis on their forthcoming book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP 2026) 283
Reposted by Mike HarvisonCecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 06/03/2026For for thought from the Moorjani lab! 131
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026www.vice.com/en/article/g...vice.comGen Alpha Is Sick of Superheroes. They Want Father Figures Instead.Young dudes are tired of watching stuff get blowed up real good by superheroes who save the world without ever discussing their feelings. 000
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026These duds really love their own imaginations. They’re so cut off from their own embodied life, needs, emotions and feelings they can’t guess what an actual life must be like. In its place they substitute fever dreams and fantasies. It’s of a culture that swept our planet a few thousand years ago. 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026"When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – ['existential threat'] – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy." George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946 12556128
Reposted by Mike HarvisonAnthropology.net @anthropology.net · 26/02/2026Mosquito genomes may hold hidden evidence of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia. A new phylogenomic study finds human-biting behavior in Anopheles evolved ~1.8Mya — a million years before modern humans arrived. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Malaria www.anthropology.net/p/what-mosqu...anthropology.netWhat Mosquitoes Remember About Homo erectusA new genomic study suggests the ancestors of Southeast Asia's deadliest malaria vectors started targeting humans nearly two million years ago — long before Homo sapiens arrived. 051
Reposted by Mike HarvisonDr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Well... if you ask the biologists, they'll tell you that the main issue is that people don't understand the biological concept of fittness (which has more to do with having grandkids than anything else). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness...en.wikipedia.orgFitness (biology) - Wikipedia 111
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 16/02/2026www.foragerchildstudies.com/our-researchforagerchildstudies.comOur Research | Forager Children 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonGetty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. The Guerrilla Girls are at the Getty Center! This new exhibition explores the anonymous feminist art collective’s 40-year career. Explore their eye-catching artworks & humorous public interventions that helped shake up the art world. #GuerrillaGirls #Art #Museums 19128
Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 09/02/2026youtube.com/shorts/PSLGW...youtube.comDefeat Supremacy: Build Community, Not Opposition #shortsYouTube video by Darante' LaMar 000
Reposted by Mike HarvisonAmerican Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026A natural approach to managing floodplains — the low-lying areas around a river — can reduce flood risk to our communities and provide critical habitat for waterfowl, fish, land animals, and freshwater species. 🎥 Watch how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiX_1vimFcsyoutube.comAmerican Rivers Restoring FloodplainsSmall, regular floods are part of the natural ebb and flow of a healthy river. But development and increasingly frequent and powerful storms are making floods bigger and more damaging. A natural approach to managing floodplains -- the low-lying areas ar... 0108
Reposted by Mike HarvisonRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 29/01/2026 The study inevitably focuses on Western lifestyle women, which may say plenty about what this patriarchal society values and demands. Menopause/post-reproductive lifespan had a significant role in our becoming human. And may not always have been plagued by anxiety, depression or memory problems. 152
Reposted by Mike HarvisonScripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 16/01/2026🔵 ICYMI: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social scientists provides a more complete measure of the monetary harm caused by global climate damages. @insideclimatenews.org shares more. ⬇️insideclimatenews.orgOcean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change - Inside Climate NewsThe global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scr... 0128
Reposted by Mike HarvisonTay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 16/01/20261/7 Look, Mom, no hands! They have studied the age at which chimpanzees take the most risks (jumping and doing crazy things from tree to tree). It turns out that they have a peak in childhood, and it decreases as they grow older. This tells us something very interesting about ourselves. 12613